All Blog Posts Tagged 'workforce' (35)

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about a new category in recruiting technology, ways to prevent bad hires in 2011, workforce flexibility, 2011 hiring predictions, treating employees well, 20 useful Twitter blog posts and why social media is now a mass medium.

Recently a company that I know well went through an interesting hiring adventure. Their story is typical and companies of all types experience these same particulars every day. You’d think that the pain of having to endure wasted time, poor decisions, and missed opportunities would change the way we go about hiring, but we’ve been doing it this way for decades and change is hard. The interesting thing is that for quite some time we have had at our disposal the systems that can change the…

In HR technology, you get pretty used to dealing with HR departments of all types. Proactive, innovative and creators of real business value … and the rest. In the most frustrating of days, we really start to wonder what the world would be like without HR.

Consider this scenario… when you show up for work tomorrow, the HR department has disappeared. Your first thought is:…

As business becomes more global, it increasingly encounters a more culturally diverse customer base. Hiring a varied workforce shows respect for customer diversity, may increase the extent to which customers identify with the company, and secures internal innovation.

Recruiting is one of the most difficult tasks an employer can face, and many can often be heard complaining that it is difficult to secure the right talent, particularly at the top end of the scale.

The evolving US economy, cyclical change, and the worldwide distribution of wealth and business have caused what some experts are claiming to be an ever changing and fluid workforce. Stability and permanence are washed away to the low cost countries beating down our doors offering value and efficiency. But is that the case, or are we not noticing the widespread change that is taking place with our off-shoring efforts and what is likely to be a huge windfall (long long term) if the US can… Continue

Hello Recruiting Community!
My firm, InStep Consulting LLC, and LASD Resource Development have created a NEW SURVEY to analyze the impact the economic climate has had on the workforce. In particular, we are seeking to find out the types of investment businesses are making to support workers who have been displaced as a result of layoffs (e.g., outplacement services).

Could we amend our thinking around what retention stands for?
Bernard Salt spoke at the recent "State of the Industry" dinner for the Recruitment & Consulting Services Association in Melbourne, at which I was a special guest of CEO Julie Mills. Bernard recounted a story whereby a lawyer had in years previous, lamented at how they would invest… Continue

With web-based onboarding—which automates that process—experts say employers can drive productivity and acclimate employees better into their organizations.
According to Enwisen, web-based onboarding’s popularity has grown increasingly over the years as more
employers seek to streamline the hiring process, allowing companies to:
• Track and monitor new hires in the… Continue

"To be successful in 2009 means doing the extraordinary. It means focusing even harder on your customer, improving the quality of service, being very efficient and ensuring that the peole that are employed in your business have the right skills, knowledge, attitude and capability to enable your company to survive and grow"

Scorelogix®, the leader in predicting job security for banks and other lending institutions, has rolled out a new product, the personal Job Security Score ™. The Delaware based company created this new product in response to a growing individual need to know how secure one’s job is.

The company is making the personal JSS available to users through partnerships with leading online job sites and geographically selected online editions of newspapers. By making this new product available… Continue

You have a blank check AND infinite influence. What are the two changes in your recruiting world you would most like to see occur. And, if these two changes did occur, you would see them have a positive influence on:

> how you contribute value to your company
> the hiring process experience for both job seekers and recruiters
> your overall career
What's…Continue